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Board reports closed-session personnel actions including two hires and status changes

Board of County Commissioners for Somerset County · December 10, 2024

Summary

The board reported a closed session held Dec. 10 under Maryland statute §3-305(b)(1) that addressed personnel matters and recorded actions: two hires, conversion from probationary to permanent status for at least one employee, and designation of additional holidays. Motions to enter closed session were recorded and carried.

The board’s minutes include a Closed Session Summary Report stating that on Dec. 10, 2024, from 3:00 p.m. until 3:56 p.m., the board met in closed session under the authority of State Government Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, Subtitle §3-305(b)(1), to consider personnel matters. Present were Vice President Randy Laird and Commissioners Craig Mathies, Eldon Willing and Darryl Webster, along with County Administrator Ralph D. Taylor, Deputy County Administrator Ernie Leatherbury, Director of Human Resources Jamie Manaia, and Executive Secretary Kimberly Lopez.

"Topics discussed were: (1) Personnel; Actions Taken: Hiring x2; (2) Personnel; Actions Taken: Probationary to Permanent; (3) Personnel; Actions Taken: Additional Holidays," the minutes state. The record also documents motions to enter closed session: a motion by Commissioner Craig Mathies, seconded by Commissioner Darryl Webster, carried by the four commissioners present, citing the Annotated Code of Maryland, Subtitle §3-305(b)(1). The board later again recorded a motion at 3:00 p.m. to enter closed session and carried that motion by the same roll of ayes.

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